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Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
- Subject: Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
- From: "AppleRetrospective" <rtk@scotborders.co.uk>
- Date: 1997/02/22
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Cyberphile Ltd
- References: <330bf90d.824446@news.netins.net> <5eiqce$3g8$1@darla.visi.com> <330d1774.10760372@167.152.149.11> <5elg9l$782@cwis-20.wayne.edu>
Charles A. Plater expunged...
> Whoah - DOS 3.3 was written by Wozniak. In fact, if I remember the story
> correctly, he finished the original dos the night before a computer show
> that was supposed to feature the new Apple ][ Disk Drive. They finished
> up coding late that night, and went to make a backup disk, only they
> copied the blank disk on to the one with the DOS on it, and they had to
> start over from scratch.
They being Steve, and the person who wrote most of DOS (3.1 being the
earliest revision released I have come across) being Randy Wigginton - who
also wrote Mac Write.
Richard